A Comparison between Scores on Kirton's Inventory for Nursing Students and a General Student Population

Abstract

This study compared scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory of 60 first-year nursing students with scores of 73 nonnursing majors of approximately the same age to test the hypothesis that, in general, individuals selecting nursing as a major tend to show a more adaptive style of creativity in problem solving than their nonnursing peers. Analysis indicated the nursing students were significantly more "adaptive" in problem solving and less "innovative" than the nonnursing control group.

Predictive Roles of Thinking Styles in Coping Strategies Among Mainland Postgraduate Students in Hong Kong

“…This invisible shifting population can be seen as a piece of underlying evidence for the relationships between disciplines and thinking styles. Thus, different thinking styles in different disciplines can be seen as a result of the nature of different disciplines (Pettigrew and King, 1993), different abilities, and required objectives, which might push learners in a certain direction.…”

“…Socioeconomic status has been statistically proven to be significant in postgraduate study (Watson et al, 2010;Han et al, 2014) and is one of the factors influencing thinking styles (Alevriadou et al, 2004). Besides, disciplines also show inevitable influences on thinking styles due to unique identities and the nature of various academics (Becher, 1981;Pettigrew and King, 1993). Furthermore, contradictory findings have also been found in the thinking styles among students of social science (Balkis and Isiker, 2005;Kim, 2010).…”